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Rules'

to

help

fouls

in

the

way

of

hta.sgring.

3

z

t

and cryed

to

him,

f

aying, have

mercy

òn

me

O

Lord,

thou fon

of

David,

my

daughter

:5griooufly

vexed with a

Devil;

but

he

anfwered

her

not

a

word,

and:

his-

Difciîles

came

and

besought

hìm

faying,fend her away

for

fhe

eryetlo

after

us, but he

arf

eered

and

lard,

I

am

not

fens, but

unto

the

loft

Beep

of

the

bottle

of

Ifra-

el,

then came

fbe, and

worfhippedhies,

faying,Lord

help

me,6ut

he

anfwered

and

Paid,

it

is not

meet

to

take

the

chldrens

bread and

to

call it

to

dogs,&

fhe

faid,truth

Lord,yet

the

dogs,eat

of

the crams

which

fall

from-

their

mailers table.

It

is

á

molt notable

Scrip-

ture

that

any

we have

i.n

the

Book

of

God,to

i"hetiv

that where

the

heart

is

fet

upon a

thing, it

will

trample

upon

all

di.'cou-

ragements:For mark,one cannot imaginmore- difcouragments,

then

this

poor woman had at this

time

in feeking

to Chrill.

.

Firft,

She

comes and feekes

to

Chrift,

and

cryes to him,

have

mercy onme

O

Lord, but

he

anfwers

not

a

word.

When

thou

ar

bungling

and

praying

to

God

for

grace,

if God doe

not

anfwer

thee prefently,thou artall-a

-mort

and

difcouraged,

this

woman

cryes,

and

Chrift

anfwers

her

not

a

word,

this

did

not

diîcourage

her,neither let it

difcourage

thee,though Chrift

Both

not

anmer thee

prefently

upon

thy feeking

to

him.

Secondly

,

,There came

the Diîciples,

and

they

b

fought

Chrift,

Send

her away

for

fhe

cryeth

after

us.

The

Di:ci

,les

they (peak

churlifhly,

fo

many

poor

foules

that

are

feeking

after Chrift,

their

friends come

and difcourage

them, they

are

chutlithrtowards

them,

well

it

may

be this

hinders thee,

but

if

thy

.

defires he

right

,

this will

not

discourage

thee neither,

It

did not

dif

ourage

thisroo»e

woman.

Thirdly, Chriffantivered,

/am

not

fent

but

to

the

ill

fheep

ofthe

home

of

1fragil

;

faith

Chrift,

what have

I

to doe

with

thin woman;

the

is

none

,

of

the houle

of

If

ne!,

and

I

am

not

fent

to

her, this

was a

fearefull difcou -aging

anfver,

when

that

Jelus Chrift fhould

fay,

that

he

was

no:

fen-

but to

the

loft

fheep

of

Ifrael

,

*hat

should this

popre'

wmaan

doe

now

!

Thus

it

is

with

many in

their

feeking

after

grace

;

faith

one,

it

may

be

I

doe

not belong

to

the

eleótion

of

God,'

I

am

none

of

that

little

number

that Chrift

was

fent

'for;

Though

Ch:ift did

fay

thus

to

her,yet

this

did not

difcou-

T

t

rage